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Deimos Ovaert
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
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Posted - 2013.04.24 00:50:00 -
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Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-
Oh yes! Some of my fondest memories of gaming were in the hundreds(?) of Afrika Korps games we played together.
I also fit the general motif of the "Grey Hair Brigade", 40+, kids, business owner. I play when I can, skill when I can't. It's almost as if EVE were made for the over 40 play style and that's what keeps me subscribed.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1412
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Posted - 2013.04.24 01:00:00 -
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Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes- I lived not far from their offices. Which is not as good a thing as one might think.
Interstingly, as I played their various games, I gravitated back to "Tactics II" more and more. Also "Wooden Ships and Iron Men." Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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Karn Dulake
Scared miners Ltd
1129
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Posted - 2013.04.24 01:01:00 -
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Im older than New Eden and have a lot of responsibilites.
1. Be in a corp thats more of a social club. 2. Dont ever have any management in this game 3. Dont join a nullsec alliance that makes demands of its players. Nothing worse than having a teenage FC who is a sef diagnosed Aspie telling you what to do and how to play your game.
Apart from that welcome to the club. I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion. |
Tank Talbot
Imperial Academy Amarr Empire
35
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Posted - 2013.04.24 01:02:00 -
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Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-
Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.) |
Deimos Ovaert
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
7
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Posted - 2013.04.24 01:05:00 -
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Tank Talbot wrote: Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.)
Ogre is a great game.
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silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1412
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Posted - 2013.04.24 01:13:00 -
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Tank Talbot wrote:Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes- Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.) Ogre. GEV. Rivits. Melee and Melee: ITL. Death Test, Death Test II. Car Wars. Oh, god - Car Wars! Many, many of the old Metagames and Steve Jackson games. GURPS is a nice try, but Melee was just better. Enough rules to do anything you want, and no cumbersome extras.
I've actually played Car Wars against Steve Jackson (draw - his cars all burned, but we lost far more $$ than he did). My friend almost ran him over at one of the early BaltiCons. Accident, of course - but that didn't stop Rich from making a bumper sticker: "I ran down Steve Jackson."
Edit: Actually, my friends and I were the responsible parties who invented the "WeaponCon" prank as a protest against the stricter weapons policy at BaltiCon 6, I think it was. I still have some of the original flyers, somewhere. Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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Diablo Ex
Strenus Custodes
174
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Posted - 2013.04.24 02:16:00 -
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Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-
I still have my box edition of AH's Starship Troopers Diablo Ex Machina - "I'm not here to fix your problem" |
Loan--Wolf
Ace's And 8's
3
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Posted - 2013.04.24 02:34:00 -
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ok im old 45 but some of you guys are giveing new meaning to the name dust 514
haha jk dont pod me |
James Amril-Kesh
4S Corporation RAZOR Alliance
4681
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Posted - 2013.04.24 02:35:00 -
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Karn Dulake wrote:3. Dont join a nullsec alliance that makes demands of its players. Nothing worse than having a teenage FC who is a sef diagnosed Aspie telling you what to do and how to play your game. lol Module activation timers are buggy. CCP please fix. |
Jonah Gravenstein
Khalkotauroi Defence Labs
8077
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Posted - 2013.04.24 02:53:00 -
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Loan--Wolf wrote:ok im old 45 but some of you guys are giveing new meaning to the name dust 514
haha jk dont pod me We're so old that we fart dust Just for reference, I got my first computer only a few years after seeing Star Wars open in the cinema, I was 7, since then spaceships have been my drug of choice. A war hasn't been fought this badly since Olaf the Hairy, High Chief of all the Vikings, accidentally ordered 80,000 battle helmets with the horns on the inside. |
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Eurydia Vespasian
nova insula mining and industrial
2362
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Posted - 2013.04.24 03:16:00 -
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i've said this before...but this is about the only game i play that i feel like just about everyone else is way older than me lol
i'm too young to contribute anything useful to this.
but nice thread anyway. |
Loan--Wolf
Ace's And 8's
3
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Posted - 2013.04.24 03:39:00 -
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age dont allways = smart :) in eather direction |
Chylogos
24th Imperial Crusade Amarr Empire
2
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Posted - 2013.04.24 03:44:00 -
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Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?
Ah, the good ol' days... |
Tippia
Sunshine and Lollipops
13791
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Posted - 2013.04.24 03:49:00 -
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Chylogos wrote:Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?
Ah, the good ol' days... Sure. There's a modern reimplementation of it too GÇö it's called EVE.
GÇ£If you're not willing to fight for what you have in GëívGëí you don't deserve it, and you will lose it.GÇ¥
Get a good start: newbie skill plan.-á |
Herzog Wolfhammer
Sigma Special Tactics Group
2641
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Posted - 2013.04.24 04:23:00 -
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Back in my day, we thought Space Invaders was cutting edge and played it long enough to have wrist trouble.
Before that, there was Pong, and the occasional joy of scrolling curse words all over a screen on a Commodore Pet.
If you wanted to send an email, you have to put a huge letter E in an envelope and mail it. Then you had to fend off the dinosaurs that camped the mailboxes. They always camped the mailboxes. We didn't have no warp to zero either. |
Mocam
EVE University Ivy League
268
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Posted - 2013.04.24 06:10:00 -
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Tank Talbot wrote:Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes- Bunches. Micro or pocket games from other companies too like Heltank, Warp War, and Ogre. I got hooked on Starfleet Battles out of those (that one game more complex than EVE.)
iirc - Starfleet battles is one we tried and tossed.
I figured out how to run the Orion pirate ship and they validated every last move I made as I burned the engines out - close in, blast, zip out -- I killed command cruisers, etc. When a pirate cruiser could trash the hell out of a couple starfleet command cruisers at one fight, we muttered and closed it down.
The first computer game I played was on an old Cado 20/24 mini computer we were programming on. Star Trek - it was ascii based character models and we tinkered with the code base to get it balanced decently. I still remember muttering at that SOB in the romulan warbird suddenly popping up and trashing my ship in one 30x30 battle...
As for EVE - it's changing a lot faster than before. Mass changes to all the ships with the tieracide stuff. That changes the old value retention quite a bit so some of the things I used to say may not fit as well anymore but it is still quite possible to keep going without investing large chunks of time in-game. |
Celeste Taylor
Ruby Dynasty
148
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Posted - 2013.04.24 06:29:00 -
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Sodium Canine wrote:Any of you geezers ever play any of the old Avalon Hill board games? I used to have quite a collection of them when I was a kid. I miss them sometimes-
A group of my friends loved Titan. I was always a bit more partial towards Civilization.
Steve Jackson Games are fun too and I agree with a bunch listed above.
Played a ton of Cosmic Encounters as well.
I believe the average age of gamers has been going up as a whole, although Eve players do tend to be on the older side. |
Herr Esiq
Dirt Nap Squad
29
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Posted - 2013.04.24 06:41:00 -
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OP is definately not alone. Im 29, and EVE is the only game I feel young while playing. Thank you old farts.. |
Marcus Gord
Re-Awakened Technologies Inc
5829
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Posted - 2013.04.24 08:44:00 -
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I'll be 23 later this year. I'm usually the youngest person in any channel I join. I do remember the old modem noise though. First console was a Sega Megadrive....still got it. somewhere. You can't take the sky from me |
Snaggletooth Slackjaw
Uchusen Technologies
2
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Posted - 2013.04.24 08:56:00 -
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This thread has cheered me up no end.......being 20 - 25 years older than almost everyone else in my corp makes me feel like "Mother Hen" sometimes.
Some real blasts from my past coming up here too. Titan, Car Wars......I still hanker for "Lunar Jet Man" or "Starglider" from my ZX Spectrum days on occasion. Personnel Manager for Uchusen Technologies. |
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Josef Djugashvilis
Acme Mining Corporation
1151
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Posted - 2013.04.24 08:59:00 -
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I did not start to play Eve (on my other character) until I was in my early 50s.
Before then, work was too demanding as was getting our daughters to university etc.
Now I am in my late 50s I find I have more time to enjoy Eve.
I do not do anything 'fancy' in Eve, just potter around trying different aspects of the game every now and again.
Unlike some of the other older players here, my only gaming experience before Eve was a couple of goes playing pong (I think it was called) in the early 70s. This is not a signature. |
Deaconn Frostt
Li3's Electric Cucumber Li3 Federation
0
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Posted - 2013.04.24 11:10:00 -
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I'm 27 years old and my occupation is an underground miner on a fly in fly out roster so in actual fact this game suits me quite well as while I'm away I can sett a long skill in the training queue and if its not done when I come home I take it out and do short skills while I'm home.
While I am home its much of a time share system have to fit family, friends, hobbies and eve in somewhere and so far it hasn't been to bad mind you I've only been playing for 2 months. |
Colonel Xaven
Decadence. RAZOR Alliance
268
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Posted - 2013.04.24 11:59:00 -
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Zedzed Nyne wrote:I love playing EVE. I keep quitting but, in the words of Al Pacino, "Just when I think I've escaped, it pulls me back in". (Or something like that.) Trouble is, as a reasonably senior Exec in a global Corp in 'real life' - and having a young family and other 'real' responsibilities that middle-age brings - I don't have a great deal of spare time - and I certainly can't plan it around EVE.
Question: Am I alone in this? Is there anyone else who is in the same situation and wants to share game advice? If not, I'll just sail off into the sunset and leave New Eden for the under-[insert key demographic here].
Thank you for listening.
Compared to the gaming generation I think I am considered "old" with mid-30. Yes, I have a life and cannot plan it around EVE. But I am part of a great corp which is part of a great alliance and we have many dedicated man and women to split tasks. Some have more time, they do more (and earn more ofc), others not.
So my advice to you is: Find a good bunch of people who keep things running when you're off - but be available when they really need you, if possible.
www.facebook.com/RazorAlliance |
Karn Dulake
Scared miners Ltd
1131
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Posted - 2013.04.24 12:14:00 -
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Chylogos wrote: Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?
Ah, the good ol' days...
Lols Kids
Anyone remember when Manic Miner was the hot game to have
ALSO i paid -ú150 of half a meg of memory in 1986 so i could play Dungeon master on my Amiga and that was when -ú150 was a lot of money I dont normally troll, but when i do i do it on General Discussion. |
Manny Moons
New Order Logistics CODE.
52
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Posted - 2013.04.24 12:19:00 -
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Jonah Gravenstein wrote:... I got my first computer at the age of 11 ... See, you're not all that old. At 11, I was still breathing the outdoor air, riding my bike, playing baseball. There was only one company in town big enough to even have a computer, and it was in a big glass room next to a soundproof room full of keypunch girls.
When I was 21 and in the Navy, I traded a 10-speed Schwinn (back when both terms meant something) for an almost-new TRS-80 Model I Level I 4k with cassette player. My favorite program was the T-Bug debugger. I went through all the upgrades - to Level II 16k, expansion interface 48k, disk drive, RS-232 and modem, Orchestra-80 synthesizer. Then I made the switch to Heathkit and CP/M. H-8, H-89, a combination 8" floppy, 8" 5MB (yes megabyte) hard drive. That phase lasted until the IBM clones came out.
I miss the days when you could actually understand the parts in a computer, and the programs that run on it. Software that was often written by just one guy. Writing code that seemed useful at the time. I miss the ability to concentrate on a problem all night long on pizza and caffeine, and still function the next day. I miss being the guy doing the work instead of the guy managing the guys doing the work. But I don't think I'd want to trade places with an 11 year old today.
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Zedzed Nyne
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
21
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Posted - 2013.04.24 12:33:00 -
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Snaggletooth Slackjaw wrote:This thread has cheered me up no end.......being 20 - 25 years older than almost everyone else in my corp makes me feel like "Mother Hen" sometimes.
Some real blasts from my past coming up here too. Titan, Car Wars......I still hanker for "Lunar Jet Man" or "Starglider" from my ZX Spectrum days on occasion.
'Luner Jet Man' ... happy days! |
Zedzed Nyne
Center for Advanced Studies Gallente Federation
21
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Posted - 2013.04.24 12:35:00 -
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Karn Dulake wrote:Chylogos wrote: Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?
Ah, the good ol' days...
Anyone remember when Manic Miner was the hot game to have
Wasn't that Jet Set Willy? |
Ruskarn Andedare
Lion Investments
126
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Posted - 2013.04.24 13:22:00 -
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Zedzed Nyne wrote:Karn Dulake wrote:Chylogos wrote: Anyone remember the BBS game Trade Wars: 2002?
Ah, the good ol' days...
Anyone remember when Manic Miner was the hot game to have Wasn't that Jet Set Willy?
Pah to your new-fangled graphical games
Actually I think EVE has it pretty sorted for most age groups to be able to play:
- When you're young with lots of free time you can go mad earning isk in game
- When you're older with little free time you can spend a couple of minutes' pay to buy plex
And it's sure a hell of a lot easier to play than a 10 player game of Star Fleet Battles |
silens vesica
Corsair Cartel
1425
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Posted - 2013.04.24 13:26:00 -
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Herzog Wolfhammer wrote:Back in my day, we thought Space Invaders was cutting edge and played it long enough to have wrist trouble.
Before that, there was Pong, and the occasional joy of scrolling curse words all over a screen on a Commodore Pet.
If you wanted to send an email, you have to put a huge letter E in an envelope and mail it. Then you had to fend off the dinosaurs that camped the mailboxes. They always camped the mailboxes. We didn't have no warp to zero either. Up hill. Both ways. In the snow. Barefoot.
Tell someone you love them today, because life is short. But scream it at them in Esperanto, because life is also terrifying and confusing.
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Sable Moran
Moran Light Industries
139
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Posted - 2013.04.24 13:32:00 -
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Felicity Love wrote:if only to put your brain somewhere else for a few hours each week.
Pretty much this.
There is a lot you can do in eve, some of those activities don't take a whole lot of real life time. Take a look at this picture: http://swiftandbitter.com/eve/wtd/ Maybe it can give you inspiration.
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